Drone and Apocalypse

Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these essays are â?ospeculative artworksâ??, Weyâ?Ts term for descriptions of artworks she never constructs that center around the extinction of humanity. Weyâ?Ts favorite musicians are drone artists like William Basinski, Celer, Thomas Köner, Les Rallizes Dénudés, and Ã%liane Radigue, and her essays relate their works to moments of ineffability in Herodotus, Aristotle, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, Robert Burton, Hegel, and Dostoyevsky. Well after Weyâ?Ts demise, the apocalypse never arrives, but Weyâ?Ts journal is discovered. Curators fascinated with twenty-first-century culture use her writings as the basis for their exhibit â?oCommentaries on the Apocalypseâ??, which realizes Weyâ?Ts speculative artworks as photographs, collages, and sound/video installations.